https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1933#issuecomment-75368645

On Friday, May 31, 2013 at 1:21:24 PM UTC-4, Till A. Heilmann wrote:

When I write a docx file with pandoc, some of the text elements in the resulting Word document show up with the localized names of the styles (because of my German Office), namely: 

- "Standard" (instead of "Normal"),
- "Titel" (instead of "Title") and
- "Datum" (instead of "Date")

Most other text elements' styles have the 'original' American-English names, though, for instance:

- "Heading 1" … (instead of localized "Überschrift 1" …)
- "Block Quote" (instead of localized "Blocktext") 
- "Footnote Reference" (instead of localized "Fußnotenzeichen") 

I'd prefer a consistent behavior here, preferably the localized style names (which would make it easier to adapt pandoc-generated Word files to pre-existing custom styles in personal templates). 

Now, I don't know about the pandoc writer modules, but in VBA you can refer to Word styles in two ways: Either you use a literal string to give the style's (localized) name, or you use the element of class WdBuiltinStyle. So, for example, you can say either 

ActiveDocument.Styles("Body Text") 

or 

ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleBodyText) 

The second option is the better one, since it works in all localized versions of Office. Can we do something similar in pandoc's docx writer module? 

Thanks, 
Till